Just learned that she has died at 93. A true comedy legend,
https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/5155/rip_june_whitfield/
RIP June Whitfield
She was a true legend. I was only watching her earlier today in T and J, She was a brilliant actress. A true British legend. What a wonderful women. A huge loss to this country. RIP. 
The goddess of British comedy.
Unspeakably sad tonight. I'll be breaking out the DVDs.
And President of the Wimbledon (where she lived) F C Supporters' Club for many years.
A thoroughly dedicated and utterly professional actress whose career in comedy was so long and so illustrious that we are highly unlikely ever to see her like again.
Her claims to fame are far too many to list but, for me, she's the nurse in "The Blood Donor" and she spoke the very first line in that iconic episode of "Hancock".
There'll never be another.
Oh no...
It would take something exceptional to bring me back onto this forum, and very, very, very sadly this is one of those very few occasions.
The lady was a legend and you would be hard pressed to think of a UK comedian she hasn't worked with over the last 70 (!!) years. The book she could have written about all the people she had worked with would have been a sensation.
My first experience of her fabulous comedy talent was as very young (even for me!) short trousered sprog listening to her as Eth, the smouldering girlfriend of the gormless and permanently out of work Ron played by Dick Bentley in The Glums (what made it doubly enjoyable was that my parents were called Ron & Eth), which was a weekly skit in the immensely popular radio series Take It From Here. I still listen now and never tire of them.
It always started the same - Ron's dad Mr Glum (Jimmy Edwards) would start to relate a tale to the landlord of the local boozer just so he could hold him up at closing time and serve him one last brown ale, and then it would go back to the scene "live", where Eth would always open it with "Oh Ron.........beloved........................."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgcozDVI9O0
To pinch Max Miller's catchphrase - along with him and Hancock, Milligan, Sellers et al "There will never be another"
God Bless you June, you brought me and your host of adoring fans many, many very happy hours of superb comedy.
Good innings though wasn't it, working right up to recently. Did she do a biography? I can imagine her not doing one, she seemed too respectful and discreet to engage in tabloid talk about those she worked with like some do. She was always nice about Terry Scott, Frankie Howerd and Benny Hill in interviews, all supposedly difficult men to work with. She could teach younger stars a lot about discretion and respect. No wonder no one had a bad word for her.
I believe she did both a written and "picture" biography.
Known as the comic's tart she worked with almost everybody.
Yes, Paul's spot on. There's a traditional autobiography from 2000, ...And June Whitfield, and a pictorial autobiography from 2009, At A Glance: An Absolutely Fabulous Life.
Carry On Abroad. She stole the show in all her scenes. Also memorable from a Minder episode (with Ray Winstone and Jimmy Nail). And as Mrs White in one of the series of Cluedo. And even appeared in the Ballroom Dancing Mafia episode of The Goodies with Joan Sims.
Trivia question: Which parts did she play in Carry On Girls?
Quote: Paul Wimsett @ 30th December 2018, 5:43 PMTrivia question: Which parts did she play in Carry On Girls?
Very good question!
On the face of it, she played only the part of outraged local councillor Augusta Prodworthy.
However, behind the face and down the throat of it, her vocal cords stood in for those of actress Valerie Leon the sizzling 70s sex bomb who advertised Hai Karate aftershave on TV. "Be careful how you use it!"
Valerie Leon appeared in several other films and unless her voice was dubbed in those films too, she doesn't sound unlike June Whitfield.
A very talented lady with a genuine gift for comedy - another one of the greats gone. RIP Dame June.
Not forgetting the brilliant Bird's Eye TV ads she did in the 1970s with the likes of Terry-Thomas, the highly underrated Alfred Marks, Julian Orchard (who sadly died too young after making his ad with June) and many other character actors of the time
Here's my favourite - The Ambassador's Wife. I especially like the twitchy butler-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYaM16ZwjSg
Shades of Upstart Crow?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvJ72Nl1Vrg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_y2u3_w6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Nm8pFftLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yugLZ6zl4jo
OK, wouldn't get away with this now, but we can forgive June as it clearly is of its time:-